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			<h1>Domain research becomes <abbr title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</abbr> research</h1>
			<p>Day 00377: <time>Friday, 2016 March 18</time></p>
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	I&apos;ve updated the links across my entire clearnet site, aside from the ones in the domain research section, to point to the trailing dot version of any <abbr title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</abbr> pointing to a resource hosted on a server that doesn&apos;t mind trailing dots in <abbr title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> Host headers.
	I&apos;ve also updated the internal relative links to use the full <abbr title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</abbr> of the pages they link to, including the trailing dot.
	The reason that I&apos;m leaving the domain research section alone for now is that I don&apos;t want to put in the time needed to go through every link on those pages and test them all right now.
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	Speaking of my domain research section, I set it up at a time when domains were the main focus of my extra-curricular research.
	However, I&apos;m now focusing more on <abbr title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</abbr>s.
	In truth though, for my use case, the main appeal of having done this domain name research is because domain names are used in so many <abbr title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</abbr>s.
	In that way, my old domain name research is really just a subset of my new <abbr title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</abbr> research, so I&apos;ve moved my old domain pages to their new <abbr title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</abbr> research locations.
	Because I&apos;m on an <a href="apt:nginx">NGINX</a> server that I don&apos;t have access to the configuration of, I can&apos;t set up redirects.
	NGINX doesn&apos;t have a system like <a href="apt:apache2">Apache</a>&apos;s <code>.htaccess</code> files.
	In truth though, once I&apos;m back on my own server, I wouldn&apos;t want the redirects in place anyway.
	I&apos;ve set up some pages at the old locations pointing to the new locations.
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	The new <abbr title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</abbr> research section is pretty broad.
	Anything remotely relating to <abbr title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</abbr>s that I want to post will be there.
	I wrote up a new page about the <a href="https://y.st./en/URI_research/SNI_bug.xhtml"><abbr title="Server Name Indication">SNI</abbr> bug</a>, including links to all the known bug reports, most of which were filed by me.
	In the process, I ended up linking to the <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1008120">Mozilla bug report</a>.
	I took the opportunity to comment on it, as this bug report mentions a potential need to avoid stripping the dot off of the <abbr title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr> Host header.
	I figured that it was best to include the <abbr title="Request for Comments">RFC</abbr> passage specifying that the dot should not be stripped in the Host header, just in case there wasn&apos;t enough support for keeping the dot.
	The <abbr title="Client for URLs/Client URL Request Library/Curl URL Request Library">cURL</abbr> people continue to claim that <a href="https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/716#issuecomment-198561936">their bug</a> is a feature, though, so I&apos;m losing on that front.
	I&apos;ve also written a short page on <a href="https://y.st./en/URI_research/limitations.xhtml">valid limitations</a> that sometimes apply, though these limitations don&apos;t apply to the <abbr title="Server Name Indication">SNI</abbr> bug.
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